ISRA Affiliation Level
subscriber

Country
Hungary

Description
Dr. Miklos Sukosd is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, and Academic Director of the Center for Media and Communication Studies at CEU. His teaching and research focuses on democatization of the media and alternative media. For eleven years he has been collaborating with curators of the OSA Archivum samizdat collection in organizing annual seminars for CEU graduate students about samizdat. In 2005, Miklós was elected Chair of COST Action 30, a network of 70 European media researchers from 27 countries in a project supported by the European Science Foundation between 2005-2009: "East of West: Setting a New Central and Eastern European Media Research Agenda." He has published 18 academic books, including Anarchism in Hungary: Theory, History, Legacies (2006) and Reinventing Media: Media Policy Reform in East Central Europe (2003). List of the courses (including Alternative Media) taught http://www.ceu.hu/polsci/sukosd.html. More about Center for Media and Communication Studies at CEU http://www.cmcs.ceu.hu, and COST Action 30 http://www.COSTA30.eu.